Screening 11: Tuesday, April 19, 6:00pm — 9:00pm

Closing Night Reception+ Performance

Little Bang Theory: 7:00pm

The Little Bang Theory presents an evening of animated films by Ladislaw Starewicz with original music, performed live in the beautiful Carnegie theater.

The stop motion animations of Russian animator Ladislaw Starewicz (1882 -1965) have to be seen to be believed. Recognized for having made the first puppet-animated film and for his use of insects and other animals as protagonists of his films, Starewicz wrote or adapted the stories; designed and built the puppets, sets and costumes; articulated every movement, and shot each film frame-by-frame. Little Bang Theory, the brainchild of Detroit composer/sonic artist Frank Pahl, performs entirely on children’s instruments and toys. The three members (Pahl, Terri Sarris & Doug Shimmin) sit around a game table covered with brightly colored hand bells, crank-operated music boxes, toy pianos, xylophones and more.

TRT: 70 minutes

Poster Art: Richard Groot

Flatscreen Art: Troy Gallagher

Little Bang Theory,  the brainchild of Detroit composer/sonic artist Frank Pahl, performs entirely on children’s instruments and toys. The three members (Pahl, Terri Sarris & Doug Shimmin) sit around a game table covered with brightly colored hand bells, crank-operated music boxes, toy pianos, xylophones and more. Little Bang Theory’s members are constantly picking up new instruments, so the music is always shifting. It’s not unusual for someone to be playing a melodica with one hand, a metallophone with the other, and stomping on percussion under the table with the feet.  Little BangTheory has performed at festivals, galleries, and other venues across the country, including “the Three Drops of Blood” series in San Francisco, The Detroit Film Theater, Toledo Museum of Art, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the “Who Fest” in Chattanooga. They have also performed as the opening act for independent rock bands Deerhoof and Danielson.

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Screening 10: Thursday, April 14, 7:30pm

Home Theater Systems

Curated by: Latham Zearfoss

Showing the work of: Claire Arctander, Mary Helena Clark, Rami George, Dylan Mira, Latham Zearfoss

Home Theater Systems is a decade-spanning, forward-thinking collection of experimental movies made independently and collaboratively by Claire Arctander, Mary Helena Clark, Rami George, Dylan Mira and Latham Zearfoss. Each piece playfully, critically explores the contours of kinship as both a social contract and a narrative device. Family, whether chosen or inherited, could be said to be a fairly programmatic series of relations unfurling over time – a process of knowing, growing. True to form, the works featured here are from a small network of collaborators. Like archetypes of family, the works in the program are largely exercises in genre with formal investments in documentary, music video, melodrama, magical realism and mystery.

 Across diverse aesthetic strategies, the works in Home Theater Systemstake critical cues from feminist and queer struggles, framing family and domesticity as volatile sites of transgression and trauma, policing and perversion. These deeply held ambivalences find an optimistic register through the inclusion of work that offers blueprints for coalescing, and building new kinships structures outside of normative strictures.

TRT: 90 minutes with intermission

Latham Zearfoss in attendance!

Poster Art: Amy Scarpello

Latham Zearfoss is an artist and cultural producer living and working in Chicago. His artwork often centers on reclaiming historical and mythological texts, and revising them to incorporate radical notions of love and sex, possibility and probability. His commitment to art and activism has also manifested in the creation of sporadic, temporary utopias like Pilot TV and Chances Dances. Latham graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA in 2008 and the University of Illinois at Chicago with an MFA in 2011. He has exhibited his work internationally and all over the U.S.

Screening 09: Tuesday, April 12, 7:30pm

C:/NKY>STAYFLY.exe

Curated by: Jesse Byerly

Showing the work of: Scott Beseler, Joe Iannopollo, JGray, JK Media Design, Marc Governanti, Matthew Shackelford + Loraine Wible, Iman Jabrah, Numediacy, Caitlin Sparks, Madeline Walker, Jesse Byerly, Kurt Gohde + Kremena Todorova

C:/NKY>STAYFLY.exe is a night dedicated to work created by experimental filmmakers who live or work in Northern Kentucky. Pseudo-documentaries, handmade music videos, mind-bending animations – they’re all there (as you expected they would be.) Each piece is generally 10 minutes or less, so you’ll be able to fit a lot on your metaphorical experimental-film-viewing buffet plate. Come hungry for artistic excellence! Upon returning home, you will throw away your Netflix subscription and instantly download your copy of C:/NKY>STAYFLY.exe. GET READY 4 #NKYSTAYFLYdotEXE!

TRT: 65 minutes

Jesse Byerly in attendance!

Poster Art: Joey Versoza

Flatscreen Art: Jonathan Hancock

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Jesse Byerly is an an active local artist that creates work promoting a positive self-concept for people and the communities they live in, using photography, videography and design.

As the Multimedia Specialist for the National ReelAbilities Film Festival (headquartered in Cincinnati), he is working to promote cutting-edge film, art and events that celebrate disability and our shared humanity. His work has been seen by over 7000 people alongside celebrities such as Marlee Matlin, Drew Lachey, and Danny Woodburn.

With a BFA in New Media Art from Northern Kentucky University, Jesse loves exploring how art can be used as a tool to effect positive change within our local community. He has worked to help local filmmaker C. Jacqueline Wood bring The Mini Microcinema to life, a project dedicated to showing film/video/media that breaks from standard cinematic convention.

Recently, he graduated from 2 years with Public Allies Cincinnati, a branch of Americorps that aims to build a network of diverse and professional leaders focusing on enriching and empowering communities. In April 2015, he worked with Public Allies and Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation to throw a neighborhood-wide barbecue that featured local stories and portraits of Walnut Hills residents. You can see his work at JDBY.tumblr.com and contact him at Byerlyj1@gmail.com

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Screening 08: Saturday, April 9, 11:00am — 1:00pm

Animation Party!

Kid’s 16mm Animation Workshop + Screening

Curated by: Kelly Gallagher

Come to The Mini Microcinema to watch some of cinema’s most creatively colorful and beautiful animations! Cameraless and direct animations (animated films made directly onto film celluloid!) will be screened. Filmmaker Kelly will then teach children how to make their own direct animation films! After coloring directly onto film strips, we’ll be able to watch our collectively made animated film on the big screen together! All ages welcome! If you can color, you can animate! 

Kelly Gallagher in attendance!

Poster art by: Peter Van Hyning

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Kelly Gallagher is an experimental animator and filmmaker interested in exploring ways that handmade animations make labor visible. Her theoretical work investigates the radical possibilities of experimental animation, and the ways animation can visualize stories of resistance. Her films have screened worldwide at venues including: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, London ICA Artists’ Biennial, Other Cinema, Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade, and Anthology Film Archives. She is recipient of the Helen Hill Award from Indie Grits and the Audience Award from Fronteira Film Festival. Kelly resides in Ohio where she’s an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College. 

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Screening 07: Thursday, April 7, 7:30pm

Black, Black, Beautiful Black 

Curated by: April Martin and Paul Hill 

Showing the work of: Taryn Crenshaw, Britt Hart, Reinaldo Green, Scott Huegerich, Dr. Clifton Watson, Chris Bournea, Enrique Montalvo 

The full humanity of blackness in moving image form.

TRT: 90 minutes

April Martin and Paul Hill in attendance!

Poster Art: Antonio Wooten Jr.

Flatscreen Art: Sariya Babnova

April Martin is a femme identified, unapologetically BLACK, hella QUEER Art(ivist). She uses her artistic talents as a documentary filmmaker and photographer to honor Black people in all their humanity- magic, beauty, trauma, hope, fears, joy, resilience, and brilliance. She recently completed her first feature length documentary, Cincinnati Goddamn, a provocative film about black grassroots organizing, police brutality, corruption and institutional racism in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In addition to Cincinnati Goddamn, Martin has created other short documentaries with a range of subject matter that includes the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, young women’s health in underprivileged communities, the Kerry James Marshall’s Rythm Mastr Exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, as well as photographing the radical #SayHerName Liberated Chest Action reclaiming a powerful African tradition of bare-chested protest, Black women and girls shut down San Francisco's financial district for several hours during the morning commute. April is currently in production on a short music documentary about the band Rev. Sekou and the Holy Ghost and a photo portrait series of black activists around the country.When April isn’t behind the camera, she is fighting for the liberation and of black folks through organizing and direct action campaigns. As a member of black.seed; a leaderful, consensus-based collective of Black people who believe in the liberation and celebration of all Black People, she has worked on various grassroots campaigns around gentrification, state violence and the well-being of black trans women. On the recent MLK holiday, in a radical display of solidarity and the spirit of MLK, black.seed shutdown the Bay Bridge as a show of resistance to a system that continues to oppress Black, Queer, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized people throughout the Bay Area.April has been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Wexner Center for the Arts New Media Artist Award and has received fellowships from Northwestern University and C-Span Television.  In addition, she has been awarded artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. April is divides her time between West Oakland, CA and the Midwest.

Paul Hill is an award winning filmmaker, editor and sound mixer. He joined the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio Program in 1996 where he edits with world renowned filmmakers and video artists. He also makes his own documentaries. In 2002 he completed Myth of Father, a personal documentary about his transgendered father, which has been screened and won awards at festivals worldwide and is distributed by Frameline in San Francisco. Through the Film/Video Studio Program Paul has worked on hundreds of projects from filmmakers and video artists including Sadie Benning, Jennifer Reeder, Barbara Hammer, William E. Jones, and Shimon Attie. He was an editor for The Brandon Teena Story, which won Best Documentary awards at several festivals, including the Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals. He was a contributing editor for the Primetime Emmy winning documentary, A Lion in the House by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar. When he’s not busy making movies or editing someone else’s, he’s usually found watching one while cuddling with his two lovable west-highland terriers. 

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Screening 06: Tuesday, April 5th, 7:00pm

@ The Woodward Theater (1404 Main St, Cincinnati, OH 45202)

Doors open at 6:00. Screening starts at 7:00. Please note, the theater can hold 250 people, with 150 chairs, and the rest standing room only.

Cincinnati Goddamn (2014) April Martin and Paul Hill

This feature-length documentary is about police brutality, institutional and anti-black racism, and the power of grassroots activism in Cincinnati, Ohio. The film focuses on the murders of Roger Owensby Jr. and Timothy Thomas at the hands of Cincinnati Police. Set against the backdrop of a successful economic boycott and a federal investigation into the city’s policing practices, this poignant and powerful story of injustice is told through news reports, first-person accounts and cinema verité footage of the surviving families’ long-suffering battle for justice.

The film is unapologetically candid. “Cincinnati Goddamn” creates a platform to discuss the state executions of Black men by police and gives voice to the families who have suffered in silence and have been let down by the judicial system. In addition to laying bare the emotional toll that the deaths of Roger Owensby Jr. and Timothy Thomas took on their families, “Cincinnati Goddamn” details the tactics used by Cincinnati’s grassroots activist community to implement an economic boycott, the likes of which the city and country had never seen before. Alongside the boycott, the Cincinnati Black United Front, a coalition of political organizations and activists, was able to work with the ACLU, the city of Cincinnati and the Department of Justice to craft and implement new policies and procedures that drastically reformed the police department and created a model of reform for police departments throughout the United States in cities such as New Orleans and Oakland.

“Cincinnati Goddamn” not only highlights injustice, but also inspires people to action. The filmmakers hope that this body of work transcends the city limits of Cincinnati to reach people nationally and internationally that are fighting for the dignity of communities who are over-policed, victimized by the justice system,

TRT: 105 Minutes

April Martin and Paul Hill in attendance!

April Martin is a femme identified, unapologetically BLACK, hella QUEER Art(ivist). She uses her artistic talents as a documentary filmmaker and photographer to honor Black people in all their humanity- magic, beauty, trauma, hope, fears, joy, resilience, and brilliance. She recently completed her first feature length documentary, Cincinnati Goddamn, a provocative film about black grassroots organizing, police brutality, corruption and institutional racism in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In addition to Cincinnati Goddamn, Martin has created other short documentaries with a range of subject matter that includes the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, young women’s health in underprivileged communities, the Kerry James Marshall’s Rythm Mastr Exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, as well as photographing the radical #SayHerName Liberated Chest Action reclaiming a powerful African tradition of bare-chested protest, Black women and girls shut down San Francisco's financial district for several hours during the morning commute. April is currently in production on a short music documentary about the band Rev. Sekou and the Holy Ghost and a photo portrait series of black activists around the country.When April isn’t behind the camera, she is fighting for the liberation and of black folks through organizing and direct action campaigns. As a member of black.seed; a leaderful, consensus-based collective of Black people who believe in the liberation and celebration of all Black People, she has worked on various grassroots campaigns around gentrification, state violence and the well-being of black trans women. On the recent MLK holiday, in a radical display of solidarity and the spirit of MLK, black.seed shutdown the Bay Bridge as a show of resistance to a system that continues to oppress Black, Queer, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized people throughout the Bay Area.April has been awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Wexner Center for the Arts New Media Artist Award and has received fellowships from Northwestern University and C-Span Television.  In addition, she has been awarded artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Headlands Center for the Arts. April is divides her time between West Oakland, CA and the Midwest.

Paul Hill is an award winning filmmaker, editor and sound mixer. He joined the Wexner Center's Film/Video Studio Program in 1996 where he edits with world renowned filmmakers and video artists. He also makes his own documentaries. In 2002 he completed Myth of Father, a personal documentary about his transgendered father, which has been screened and won awards at festivals worldwide and is distributed by Frameline in San Francisco. Through the Film/Video Studio Program Paul has worked on hundreds of projects from filmmakers and video artists including Sadie Benning, Jennifer Reeder, Barbara Hammer, William E. Jones, and Shimon Attie. He was an editor for The Brandon Teena Story, which won Best Documentary awards at several festivals, including the Berlin and Toronto International Film Festivals. He was a contributing editor for the Primetime Emmy winning documentary, A Lion in the House by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar. When he’s not busy making movies or editing someone else’s, he’s usually found watching one while cuddling with his two lovable west-highland terriers. 

Screening 05: Thursday, March 31st, 7:30pm

Begin Anywhere

John Cage in Contemporary Film

Curated by: Calcagno Cullen

Showing the Work of: Zen Cohen, Marc Governanti, Mark Harris, Chris Reeves, Heather Phillipson

Experimental composer, theorist, and artist John Cage once stated “Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.” His legacy continues to influence generations thinkers and artists as we contemplate the culture of chance and music through various cultural believes, values, and practices. This varied selection of films and performance encompass a wide range of Cagean practices and theories, some direct descendants of the late art icon and some with only a distant murmur of his wide spread influence. This series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Purposeless Play, a two-person show between Guillermo Galindo and Mark Harris opening at Wave Pool April 1st.

TRT: 90 minutes

Calcagno Cullen, Guillermo Galindo, Mark Harris, Marc Governanti, and Chris Reeves in attendance!

Mark Harris thanks Shake It Records and the Ohio Arts Council for their support!!

Poster Art: Mark Harris

Flatscreen Art: Steve Kemple

Calcagno Cullen is a multimedia artist, arts educator, and curator. She is the founder and co-director of Wave Pool Arts Center, a gallery, studio space, and socially-engaged artist residency program in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has previously worked in the education department of SFMOMA as well as for the Community School of Music and Arts in Mountain View, CA and was director of theAdobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

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Screening 04: Thursday, March 24, 7:30pm

Bella Vista (2014)

Vera Brunner-Sung
Preceded by: the short film First Rodeo

Vera Brunner-Sung’s first feature follows the experiences of outsiders in Missoula, Montana. American English lan- guage instructor Doris imparts lessons of assimilation to her international students in the classroom. But in her off-hours she is adrift, treading a fine line between sol- itude and loneliness. As her students find friendship and community, Doris discovers her own true identity in the secrets of the vast Western landscape. Stars Cincinnati’s own Kathleen Wise as Doris.

TRT: 86 minutes

Vera Brunner-Sung in attendance!

Vera Brunner-Sung is an award-winning filmmaker who uses experimental, documentary, and narrative techniques to explore the relationship between place and identity. Her films, videos, and photographs have been presented at venues in the U.S. and abroad, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Torino Film Festival, CPH:DOX, MoMA PS1, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Images Festival. Vera also writes about film, and her criticism has been published in Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, Moving Image Source, and Senses of Cinema. She teaches filmmaking at The Ohio State University and is a 2015 fellow with the Center for Asian American Media.

Poster Art: Jessica Yurasek

Flatscreen Art: Anna Christine Sands

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Screening 03: Tuesday, March 22, 7:30pm

The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker (2009) Kelly Gallagher

Followed by:

Free Radicals (2010) Pip Chodorov

Set to a raucous Riot Grrrl soundtrack, Kelly Gallagher’s animated documentary shares the *herstory* of some of motion picture’s greatest (and often overlooked) contributors. The feature length documentary, Free Radicals, provides an introduction to one of the most important realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema. Free Radicals includes rare interviews with some of the most important filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition (including Jonas Mekas, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, and Hans Richter), and also includes several films in their entirety. The director, Pip Chodorov explains: “I wanted to share a few of the films I love and introduce you to some of the free, radical artists who made them.” C. Jacqueline Wood will also present a short talk titled: “What the hell is experimental film?”

TRT: 110 minutes

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Kelly Gallagher is an experimental animator and filmmaker interested in exploring ways that handmade animations make labor visible. Her theoretical work investigates the radical possibilities of experimental animation, and the ways animation can visualize stories of resistance. Her films have screened worldwide at venues including: Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, London ICA Artists’ Biennial, Other Cinema, Alternative Film/Video Festival Belgrade, and Anthology Film Archives. She is recipient of the Helen Hill Award from Indie Grits and the Audience Award from Fronteira Film Festival. Kelly resides in Ohio where she’s an Assistant Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College. 

Pip Chodorov was born April 13, 1965 in New York. Filmmaking and music composition since 1972. Studied cognitive science at the University of Rochester, NY and film semiotics at the University of Paris, France. Work in film distribution previously Orion Classics, NYC; UGC, Paris; Light Cone, Paris; and, currently, Re:Voir Video, Paris, which he founded in 1994 (www.re-voir.com) and The Film Gallery, the first art gallery devoted excusively to experimental film (www.film-gallery.org). He is also co-founder of L'Abominable (www.l-abominable.org), a cooperative do-it-yourself film lab in Paris, and the moderator of the internet-based forum on experimental film, FrameWorks.

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Screening 02: Thursday, March 17, 7:30pm

Latitude > Mexico
Erasure, capture, interruption

Curated by: Julian Etienne and Juan Pablo Gonzalez

Showing the work of: Natalia Almada, Ximena
Cuevas, Dalia Huerta Cano, Los Ingrávidos, Jorge Lorenzo, Genaro Rojas Ramírez, Elena Pardo, Melanie Smith, Bruno Varela

Latitude stands for a range of exposures and acceptable error, freedom of action and the parallels that map a territory north and south of the equator. This program surveys experimental film and video from artists born or based in Mexico exploring the materiality of media, the social and political ramifications of precariousness, the obfuscation of memory and the evenness of urban landscapes. Different generations and artistic practices are convened to highlight Mexico’s local and global audiovisual imbrications. TRT: 105 minutes

Julian Etienne in attendance!

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Julian Etienne is a graduate student in the Radio-Television-Film department at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in media, technology and culture, memory practices and digital media as well as non-theatrical cinema and media heritages in Latin America.

Juan Pablo González is a filmmaker whose work includes documentary, fiction and experimental films. His work has been shown in festivals such as IDFA, Cannes, Edinburgh, Full Frame, among others. Juan Pablo’s work explores memory, its mutability, and manifestations in everyday life. Part of his practice is also concerned with the reconfiguration of rural space in his home state of Jalisco.

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Poster Art: Jonathan Medina
Flatscreen Art: Bert Marckwardt

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The Mini Microcinema @ The Carnegie
Opening Night Reception + Performances

Artist Talk: 5:30pm
Roger Beebe: 7:00pm
Cartoon Research Lab: 8:00pm
 

Please join us for two opening night performances!

FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS
(multi-projector experiments by Roger Beebe).

Followed By:
Cartoon Research Lab presents “Cartoons vs. Arists”
Curated by Erin K. Drew

The Carnegie welcomes The Mini Microcinema with an open- ing reception premiering the installation work of Alice Pixley Young, Francis Hollenkamp and Paul Karalambo, Intermedio (Eric Blyth, Sam Ferris-Morris, Justin West), and Austin Radcliffe. We will also unveil our posters for the new season.

Filmmaker/curator/professor Roger Beebe visits the Mini with a program of his multiple-projector performances. The show features several of his best-known pieces including the six-projector show-stopping space jam “Last Light of a Dying Star” alongside his latest multi-projector may- hem, “SOUNDFILM.”
 

Roger Beebe will be followed by a special evening version of the Cartoon Research Laboratory (CRL) curated by Erin K. Drew. The CRL is an opportunity for scholars of the medium to study “classic” cartoons alongside contemporary animation bearing its influence. In this edition, curator Erin K. Drew will be escorting viewers through mid-century depictions of artists in animation. While beaux artistes of the era were borrowing imagery from comics, cartoons and “low culture” forms, studio cartoons were generating portrayals of artists as swindlers, savages, and exotic, slovenly children... with undeniable allure.
 

Roger Beebe and Erin K. Drew in attendance!

Poster Artists: Justin Lunsford
Flatscreen Art: Joseph and Ryan Morris

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Roger Beebe has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and McMurdo Station in Antarctica as well as more likely ones including Sundance and the Museum of Modern Art among many other venues.  Beebe is also a film programmer:  he ran Flicker, a festival of small-gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, from 1997-2000 and was the founder and Artistic Director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film Festival from 2004-2014.  He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University.

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Erin K Drew is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and instructor who enjoys teaching conceptual art to teens, deconstructing "novelty" and "entertainment" in the art world, and bringing cartoon pedagogy to her peers.

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